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I follow Xen-devel mailing list and it was often the place for patches submitted by AMD engineers. In terms of providing support for common place graphics card passthrough and IOMMU AMD was doing a great job.

It's a pity for the community and for all the engineers involved. I'm sure they'll land a job fast but still it sucks.

My thanks for their work on Xen.

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Yeah, I think they are turning to ARM based server CPUs now while at the same time ditching Linux support, which just proves the company won't be around for too long unfortunately. What happened to the AMD that gave us the almighty Athlon?

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WTF are you talking about?
AMD performance/$ is WAY better than Intel.
And what 'optimizations' are you referring to? You mean the ones like Intel does to their compiler to sabotage the performance of AMD processors?http://techreport.com/discussions/8547 -- verified independently, disabling the "if (intel) run_fast_path(); else run_slow_path();" check yielded a 10% improvement in AMD processor performance.

AMD makes every bit as good of a processor.
AMD slaughters intel on a per $ basis.
AMD doesn't use cheap compiler trickery to damage the results of their competitors.